Hand stamp



P. L. NORDIN.

HAND STAMP.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 10. I921.

Patented Feb. 28, 1922.

PETRUS LEONARD NORDIN, OF M INNEAPDL-IS, MINNESOTA.

HAND s'i Amr.

Application filed August 10, 1921.

To all whom, it may come m:

Be it known that I, Pnrnus TJEONARD Non- DIN, a citizen of the UnitedStates residing at Minneapolis, in the county of iHennepin 'and State ofMinnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in HandStamps, and I do hereby declare the following to be a fulhclear, andexact description of the invention, such as will enable others-skilledin the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention rel 'tes to improvements :in hand stamps and, morespecifically to such stamps made for marking goods or packages or boxescontaining goods delivered to .cold storage plants by stampingthereon,with ink, at the time of :receiring,"the license number of the plant,the receiving .date and an identifying number Certain States have lawsrequiring such markings and it often requires more than one day todeliver goods for storage and each 'lot must bear the date on which .thefirst delivery was made and, hence, the receiving clerk is required tochange the date on 'his identifying stamp many times aday. Stamps now inuse, an

addition to other matter, "have daters made up of independent type heldin retaining channels and each time the date is changed, .it isnecessary to pick out one or more of the type and substitute other typetherefor, which requires considerable work and a great deal of lost timeand, furthermore, these independent type are very :often dropped andlost. a

My invention has for its object .to provide a stamp in which the datingand numhering apparatus may be very easily and quickly adjusted,together with other vimportant improvements hereinafter "noted,

To the above end, generally stated. the invention consists of the noveldevices and combinations of deviceshereinafter described and defined inthe claims.

In the accompanying drawings, which illustrate the invention, likecharacters .indicate like parts throughout the several views. I

Referring to the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a left side elevation of the improved hand stamp:

Fig. 2 is a back elevation of the same;

Fig. 3 is a vertical section taken on the line 33 of Fig. 2, on anenlarged scale; and

Specification of Letters Patent.

.ently more under compression.

Patented Feb. 28, 1922.

Seria1.No. 491,102.

Fig. lis a bottom plan view of the invention as shown in Fig. 3.

T he numeral 5 indicates a U-shaped main frame, to the sides of which,at their lower edges, are rigidly secured two outer platen bars 6 and 7.The width of the platen bar 6, at its lefthand end, is materiallyincreased toward the platen bar 7, as indicated at 8.

An intermediate platen bar 9 is located between the platen bars 6 and 7and spaced edgewise therefrom and has one of its ends secured to oneoft-hesidesof the main frame 5 and its other .end is secured to the extension 8 of the platen bar 6. Preferably, as shown, the platen bars 6,7 and 9 are in the form of inverted channels.

D Mounted on the platen bar 6 and its exten .sion 8 and on'the platenbars 7 and '9 are elastic beds 10, 11 and 12, respectively, of spongerubber or other suitable material.

These beds 10, 11 and 12 are secured to the respective platen bars 6, 7and 9 and the extension 8 by headed. guide pins 13, which are free tomove endwise in the respective platen bars to permit said beds toindepend- V The under faces .of the beds 11 and 12arecovered bychannehwearing plates 1 1 and 15, respectively, held in position bycertain of the headed guide pins 13. On the under face of that portionof the bed 10 mounted-on the platen thar 7 is a line of type yvhichreads as follows: Minn. License No. 1.? Also, on the under face of thatportion of the bed 10 mounted in the platen extension 8 is a line oftype. alignedwith the wearing plates '15, which reads as follows: Recd?A plurality of edgewise spaced type-carrying endless ribbons 16 arearranged to run over the wearing plate 14-. and overlying wheels 17viournaled on a stationary shaft "18. the ends of which extend intoslots in the sides of the .main frame 5 and are adjustably supported onbearing screws 19 having screw-threaded engagement with lugs 20 on theouter faces ofthe sides .of said mainframe. Obviously, these bearingscrews 19 act as tighteners for the endless ribbons 16. To one end ofeach wheel 17 is secured a metal disk 21 having a notched periphery, thediameter of which is considerably larger than the wheel 17. These disks21 may be engaged at diametrically opposite points by the fingers of anoperators hand extended cured to each ribbon 16 are longitudinallyspaced type 22 representing the di git-s naught to nine, inclusive, andthe type 22, on the several ribbons 16, are arranged to be transvverselyaligned on the wearing plate let to afitord a lot number, as shown inFig 4c.

ih plurality of type-carrying edgewise spaced ribbons 23 are arranged torun over the wearing plate 15 and a plurality of over lying wheels 24independently journaled on a shaft 25 mounted in the sidesv of ayokelike supplemental frame 26 secured to the platen bar 6. On one ofthe outer ribbons 23 are type 27 indicating the months o f the yeararranged to be successively positioned on the wearing plate 15, on eachof the two intermediate ribbons 23, are type 28 indicating the digitsmight to nine, inclusive, arranged to be transversely aligned on thewearing plate 15 to indicate the days of a month, and on the other outerribbons 23 are type 29 indicating different years arranged to besuccessively positioned on the wearing plate 15. By adjustingvther1bbons 23, the type 27, 28 and 29 ,may be transversely aligned invarious different arrangements on the wearing plate 15 after the wordliecd. to indicate the month, the day of the month and the year, asshown in Fig. 1. A guiderod 30 is secured to the sides of thesupplemental frame 26 for guiding the ribbons 23 to and from the wearingplate 15 to positionthe type 27, 28 and 29 thereon.

Secured to one of the ends of 'each of the wheels 24: is a metal disk 31similar to the metal disks 21 and which disks 31 may be engaged, atdiametrically opposite points, by the operators fingers while his handis extended over the transverse portion of the supplemental frame 26. iA handle 32 is secured to the transverse portion ofthe main frame 5 bywhich the improved stamp may be carried and, operated. V

From the above description, it is evident that the lot number and thedate may be very easily and quickly changed and,.in stamping boxes orpackages having uneven surfaces, the elastic beds 10, 11 and 12 willyield so that all the letters and numerals on the stamping face of thedevice will rest evenly upon the surface thereof and thereby clearly anddistinctly reproduce on the box or package the name of the State, thelicense number, receiving date and the lot number.

The above described device, in actual elastic usage, has proven highlyefiicient for the purpose had in view.

What I claim is:

1. The combination with a frame, of two outer platen bars and anintermediate "platen bar edgewise spaced the one from flanges, two setsof wheels journaled on the frame over the outer platen bars, elasticbeds on the platen bars held by said flanges, channel wearing plates onone of the outer beds and the intermediate elastic bed type carryingribbons arranged to. run over said wheelsr and said wearing plates, andtype on the other outer elastic bed.

3. In a stamp of the kind described, the combination with a frame, of aplaten bar, an elastic bed mounted on the platen bar, a guide pinextending completely through the elastic bed and mounted in the platenbar with freedom for endwise movement to permit compression of theelastic bed, and type on the under side oft-he elastic bed.

4. In a stamp of the kind described, the combination. with a' frame, oftwo outer -'pl.aten bars and anintermediate platen bar edgewise spacedthe one from the other, two sets of wheels journaled on the framedirectly over the outer platen bars, typecarrying ribbons arranged torun over said wheels and one of the outer platen bars and theintermediate platen bar, and type secured to the other outer platen bar.

5. In a stamp of the kind described, the combination with yoke-like mainand supplemental frames, of two outer platen bars and an intermediateplaten bar edgewise spaced the one from the other, elastic beds mountedon the platen bars, type secured to one ofthe outer elastic beds,two-sets-of wheels jQHI'IltLlGC l one set in each of said frames, andtype-carrying ribbons-arranged to run over said wheels and the otherelasth; bed and the intermediate elastic bed.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

PETE-US LEONARD NORDIN.

